Hatching mechanism and accelerated hatching of the eggs of a sac-spawning euphausiid Nematoscelis difficilis |
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Authors: | Gomez-Gutierrez Jaime |
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Institution: | Departamento De Plancton Y Ecologia Marina, Centro Interdisciplinario De Ciencias Marinas, AP 592, CP 23000 LA PAZ, Baja California Sur, Mexico
1 Present Address: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 104 Ocean Administration Building, Corvallis, OR 97331-5503, USA |
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Abstract: | Observation of the sac-spawning euphausiid Nematoscelis difficilisHansen during shipboard laboratory incubations showed that itsembryos usually hatch as pseudometanauplius (PMN) or metanauplius(MN). The eggs, which have a minute perivitelline space, arespherical at spawning and become elliptical after the nauplius1 develops. When ready to hatch, the PMN or MN embryos extendand contract their first and second antennae in a swimming movement,breaking the chorion into almost equal halves joined by onesmall section in the anterior part of the chorion. The mandiblesplay a secondary role in cutting the chorion. Then the embryopushes itself backwards with the first and second antennae toescape from the chorion. This is known as push-offhatching. The embryos always hatch progressively from the distalend towards the proximal end of the ovigerous sac. The timebetween hatching of the first and last embryo may reflect thetime the females require to lay a clutch of eggs (<2.1 h).Development time to the PMN stage at 10°C was |
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